Showing posts with label snap beans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snap beans. Show all posts
Sunday, March 22, 2026

What Happens When You Rush Things

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Gardening is an inexact science.  You win some and you lose some, and you definitely learn along the way.  For planting the spring garden, I...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Putting Vegetables Up

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Ah!  Gardening is so relaxing.  Why, look at this pastoral scene.  I'm sitting on a concrete bench in the shade in an area we call the g...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

Still No Freeze

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As of December 29th, we've had maybe three mornings that I've walked out and seen a very light frost out on the pasture.  It has not...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Mission Accomplished

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Right outside the garden gate, I caught a little creature.  A bug.  A ladybug, to be precise.  It could have been a gentlemanbug, perhaps, a...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

Feeding the Fishes

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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  I love the family time, the festivities, the crisp fall weather in the air, the focus on thankfulness ...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

The Snap Bean Goal

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We always have a goal to have fresh snap beans for Thanksgiving Dinner.  Some years we get an early freeze and the beans don't make it. ...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

A Successful Experiment

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I remember reading about 10 years ago how Monsanto was suing small farmers to protect its patents on genetically modified seed.  No seed sav...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Running Out of Time

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The rains have been few and far between this summer.  Shrubs and trees have died in the yard.  It has been an unusual time, to say the least...
Monday, May 1, 2023

Snap Beans - Four Ways!

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The Spring harvest is on!  Tricia picked up a nifty basket from her mom that is coming in useful.  We filled it with zucchini, yellow crookn...